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Lisa Elliot

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The Green Genius - saving our planet

Matthew Remski

Mark Walsh

Keith Williams

Laurel Beversdorf

Trina Altman

Stuart Khan

Charles Massy

Sonali Fiske

Charlie Arnott

Sarah Kowalski

Carrie Owerko

Abby Corriveau

Nityda Gessel

Erin Jade

Nik Robinson

OwlTail

In the year 1800, a little over 200 years ago, there were 1 billion people on Earth. Today there are 7.7 billion people and by 2100 there will be close to 11 billion people on Earth.How are we going to feed everyone? What exactly is aquaculture and what does it have to do with the global population?Aquaculture is the farming of aquatic organisms including fish, molluscs, crustaceans and aquatic plants. Even farming pearls, crocodiles and ornamental fish is classified as aquaculture. Globally, the aquaculture market is worth over $50 Billion USD and production is led by China who produces over 65 billion metric tons of aquaculture products annually and aquaculture is the fastest growing primary industry in Australia.Driving the growth of the Australian aquaculture sector is the world demand for fisheries products that the world's commercial fisheries are increasingly unable to meet due in part to greatly depleted fish stocks and global population growth. The Australian Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment estimates the value of Australian aquaculture production is worth around $1 billion annually.Aquaculture in Australia dates back thousands of years with evidence of an Aboriginal community farming eels in Victoria (United Nations) and Australian writers such as Bruce Pascoe have educated many of us about how first peoples have farmed, nurtured and lived in harmony with nature in Australia for millennia and another remarkable fact is that indigenous Australians used to transport yabbies between waterholes to restock impoverished waterbodies. The first true aquaculture in Australia.The earliest commercial aquaculture products was the Sydney Rock Oyster from New South Wales in the 1870s and it is only in more recent times (since the 1960s) that farming freshwater crayfish in purpose-built dams has really commenced. Join us for this insightful discussion with entrepreneur and visionary Dr. Lisa Elliot, Managing Director and founder of the Australian Crayfish Hatchery, the first state-of-the-art redclaw crayfish hatchery of its kind.

In the year 1800, a little over 200 years ago, there were 1 billion people on Earth. Today there are 7.7 billion people and by 2100 there will be close to 11 billion people on Earth. How are we going to feed everyone? What exactly is aquaculture and what does it have to do with the global population? Aquaculture is the farming of aquatic organisms including fish, molluscs, crustaceans and aquatic plants. Even farming pearls, crocodiles and ornamental fish is classified as aquaculture. Globally, the aquaculture market is worth over $50 Billion USD and production is led by China who produces over 65 billion metric tons of aquaculture products annually and aquaculture is the fastest growing primary industry in Australia. Driving the growth of the Australian aquaculture sector is the world demand for fisheries products that the world's commercial fisheries are increasingly unable to meet due in part to greatly depleted fish stocks and global population growth. The Australian Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment estimates the value of Australian aquaculture production is worth around $1 billion annually. Aquaculture in Australia dates back thousands of years with evidence of an Aboriginal community farming eels in Victoria (United Nations) and Australian writers such as Bruce Pascoe have educated many of us about how first peoples have farmed, nurtured and lived in harmony with nature in Australia for millennia and another remarkable fact is that indigenous Australians used to transport yabbies between waterholes to restock impoverished waterbodies. The first true aquaculture in Australia. The earliest commercial aquaculture products was the Sydney Rock Oyster from New South Wales in the 1870s and it is only in more recent times (since the 1960s) that farming freshwater crayfish in purpose-built dams has really commenced.  Join us for this insightful discussion with entrepreneur and visionary Dr. Lisa Elliot, Managing Director and founder of the Australian Crayfish Hatchery, the first state-of-the-art redclaw crayfish hatchery of its kind.

Aquaculture and sustainability: a discussion with Dr. Lisa Elliot, founder of Australian Crayfish Hatchery

Christine Wushke

In this talk we met with Christine and Lisa to discuss and share some trauma-informed and body-oriented nervous system resources during the COVID 19 pandemic. This talk was recorded during the beginning of the pandemic in April, but still feels pertinent in it’s launch on air in October. Some of the topics covered: - The importance of orienting towards resources during challenging times. - From hyper-productivity to stop, and how much that reveals our cultural rushing. - Sheltering at home as a holding container. - Seeing how society is revealing where people are in terms of nervous system states: fight, flight, freeze and appease. - The raising of responses to these events: conspiracy theories, feelings of being at loss, overwhelm, not knowing how to deal with this “invisible” emergency. - What is it to function in a world that doesn’t support a healthy nervous system? The body is having a “neuroceptive” response and the way back to regulation is in the body. - Polyvagal Theory and the difference in the state adaptations across cultures. - Epigenetics, Family Systems and Stress. Stress, trauma and the body, Saj Razvi YouTube video. - Mobilization before safety and connection. What are we adapting to in the environment? I’m not messed up, I have a nervous system. - The loss of pleasure during trauma, allowing tuning into savoring and directing the attention back to pleasure sensations. The Hakomi Method and self-soothing gestures to bring more awareness of pleasure. - Ways in which people attempt self-regulation and functionality via external resources that are substitute forms of resources that are destructive. The concept of “vitality” as a resource that arises from within vs resources that are external. Relational and Body-Centered Practices for Healing Trauma: Lifting the Burdens of the Past 1st Edition, by Sharon Stanley - The Threshold Theory of Change, by Lisa Elliot. The reductionist idea of our culture, in terms of finding the reductionist “one” solution. Accessing greater health from a social justice response. - The midbrain, effort and control area. - Orienting to the small moments of safety, regulation and pleasure. The small steps towards pleasure and regulation. One step at the time, one dish at the time, one breath at the time. - Tracking and getting to know your own system. What’s your vitality enjoy? - Orienting to safety and threat through vision. Doing a task until completion, and avoiding chronic stress. The concept of simultaneous visual awareness via panoramic vision. Z-Health Neurofundamentals free of charge Other Resources: - Finding the gravel at the bottom of the river to stop being swept away. - Parts of the self, a part of you experiencing something, and me as the observer and care taker of this part. Turning kindness and compassion towards ourselves. My body and mind have done so much to keep me safe. Understanding the intelligence of the nervous system responses. - Start small, build up from there. Locate one part of your body that feels ok. - Using a therapy ball or lacrosse ball to map (feel) places of the body that feel pleasant, using language that feels inviting. - Accumulate those things you have access to; postive self regulating inputs, like a basket of resources with written things, objects. Ekeko god (Peru-Bolivia) as an example. - The crucial role of compassion in this connection with resources. Turning attention with compasion. CHRISTINE WUSHKE Christine Wushke is a long time Yoga Teacher, Meditation Instructor, Myofascial Release Therapist, and Certified Hakomi Practitioner, Christine decided to merge her specialties, she began to incorporate the principles of Myofascial Release, trauma awareness and mindfulness into all her yoga classes and, noticing the amazing results and effectiveness, she designed her own system of Myofascial Yoga. Christine Wushke is also the author of Freedom is Your Nature: A Practical Guide to Transformation and creator of the “Easy Yoga for Beginners” DVD.  For more information of Christine please check out her website at freelyhuman.com  Lisa Elliott comes to this conversation as the founder of the Vagus Study Group, a large, online collaborative learning project with a mission of exploring the embodiment of experience via diverse ways of knowing.  Her work and that of the study group navigates between the methods of western science, philosophy, activism, art, and the transformative interconnectedness found in many spiritual orientations.  Lisa is a counselor-in-training at Antioch University Seattle, completing a rich internship with Dr. Sharon Stanley of Somatic Transformation before beginning private practice in December of 2020. Lisa comes to counseling as a returning student from earlier careers in photography, community organizing, arts non-profit management, construction project management, and aerial acrobatics performance and coaching. Her work with her own life-long chronic illness has led to a holistic and eco-systemic philosophy of healing and personal growth, and to a deep study of our embodiment of stress, trauma, and factors of resilience. Email us your reflections, comments and questions at embodimenttime@gmail.com

In this talk we met with Christine and Lisa to discuss and share some trauma-informed and body-oriented nervous system resources during the COVID 19 pandemic. This talk was recorded during the beginning of the pandemic in April, but still feels pertinent in it’s launch on air in October. Some of the topics covered: - The importance of orienting towards resources during challenging times. - From hyper-productivity to stop, and how much that reveals our cultural rushing. - Sheltering at home as a holding container. - Seeing how society is revealing where people are in terms of nervous system states: fight, flight, freeze and appease. - The raising of responses to these events: conspiracy theories, feelings of being at loss, overwhelm, not knowing how to deal with this “invisible” emergency. - What is it to function in a world that doesn’t support a healthy nervous system? The body is having a “neuroceptive” response and the way back to regulation is in the body. - <a href="https://www.stephenporges.com/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Polyvagal Theory</a> and the difference in the state adaptations across cultures. - Epigenetics, Family Systems and Stress. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?fbclid=IwAR00DYO_ZaY4KO1HbpOFWWBr7Ra-RAyq3n2QfV5GyPCZNwHc4L4Dw8eapnU&amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;v=q6M1FumqeyM" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Stress, trauma and the body, Saj Razvi YouTube video.</a> - Mobilization before safety and connection. What are we adapting to in the environment? I’m not messed up, I have a nervous system. - The loss of pleasure during trauma, allowing tuning into savoring and directing the attention back to pleasure sensations. <a href="https://hakomiinstitute.com/about/the-hakomi-method" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">The Hakomi Method</a> and self-soothing gestures to bring more awareness of pleasure. - Ways in which people attempt self-regulation and functionality via external resources that are substitute forms of resources that are destructive. The concept of “vitality” as a resource that arises from within vs resources that are external. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Relational-Body-Centered-Practices-Healing-Trauma/dp/1138905968#:~:text=Relational%20and%20Body%2DCentered%20Practices%20for%20Healing%20Trauma%20provides%20psychotherapists,with%20somatic%2C%20embodied%20healing%20practices." rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Relational and Body-Centered Practices for Healing Trauma: Lifting the Burdens of the Past 1st Edition, by Sharon Stanley</a> - <a href="https://www.selahcounseling.cloud/blog/the-threshold-theory-of-embodied-experience?fbclid=IwAR0ocvh3MSIZw_M_gulxdFpT9UJkWpXQ8xbCw3cdUHvR50n6clG8QkkUzTY" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">The Threshold Theory of Change, by Lisa Elliot</a>. The reductionist idea of our culture, in terms of finding the reductionist “one” solution. Accessing greater health from a social justice response. - The midbrain, effort and control area. - Orienting to the small moments of safety, regulation and pleasure. The small steps towards pleasure and regulation. One step at the time, one dish at the time, one breath at the time. - Tracking and getting to know your own system. What’s your vitality enjoy? - Orienting to safety and threat through vision. Doing a task until completion, and avoiding chronic stress. The concept of simultaneous visual awareness via panoramic vision. <a href="https://zhealtheducation.com/join-neurofundamentals/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Z-Health Neurofundamentals free of charge</a> Other Resources: - Finding the gravel at the bottom of the river to stop being swept away. - Parts of the self, a part of you experiencing something, and me as the observer and care taker of this part. Turning kindness and compassion towards ourselves. My body and mind have done so much to keep me safe. Understanding the intelligence of the nervous system responses. - Start small, build up from there. Locate one part of your body that feels ok. - Using a therapy ball or lacrosse ball to map (feel) places of the body that feel pleasant, using language that feels inviting. - Accumulate those things you have access to; postive self regulating inputs, like a basket of resources with written things, objects. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekeko#:~:text=The%20Ekeko%20is%20the%20Tiwanakan,January%2024%20in%20La%20Paz" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Ekeko</a> god (Peru-Bolivia) as an example. - The crucial role of compassion in this connection with resources. Turning attention with compasion. CHRISTINE WUSHKE Christine Wushke is a long time Yoga Teacher, Meditation Instructor, Myofascial Release Therapist, and Certified Hakomi Practitioner, Christine decided to merge her specialties, she began to incorporate the principles of Myofascial Release, trauma awareness and mindfulness into all her yoga classes and, noticing the amazing results and effectiveness, she designed her own system of Myofascial Yoga. Christine Wushke is also the author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Freedom-Your-Nature-Practical-Transformation-ebook/dp/B00H4IMAKO/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Freedom is Your Nature: A Practical Guide to Transformation</a> and creator of the “Easy Yoga for Beginners” DVD.  For more information of Christine please check out her website at <a href="https://freelyhuman.com/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">freelyhuman.com</a> Lisa Elliott comes to this conversation as the founder of the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/VagusStudyGroup/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Vagus Study Group</a>, a large, online collaborative learning project with a mission of exploring the embodiment of experience via diverse ways of knowing.  Her work and that of the study group navigates between the methods of western science, philosophy, activism, art, and the transformative interconnectedness found in many spiritual orientations.  Lisa is a counselor-in-training at Antioch University Seattle, completing a rich internship with Dr. Sharon Stanley of Somatic Transformation before beginning private practice in December of 2020. Lisa comes to counseling as a returning student from earlier careers in photography, community organizing, arts non-profit management, construction project management, and aerial acrobatics performance and coaching. Her work with her own life-long chronic illness has led to a holistic and eco-systemic philosophy of healing and personal growth, and to a deep study of our embodiment of stress, trauma, and factors of resilience. Email us your reflections, comments and questions at embodimenttime@gmail.com

15. Christine Wushke and Lisa Elliot - Nervous System Resources During Pandemic Times